West Coast Wine Competition results

There are a number of wine competitions that we enter into for a variety of reasons. Winning medals, especially the shiny gold one's allow us to promote our brand. Brand identity is a mixture of things and in this case by winning awards we increase our sales in certain markets that our wine is sold in and, more importantly, increase awareness of our label and the LaVelle Vineyards name.

The West Coast Wine Competition, brought to us by the Vineyard & Winery Management Magazine, is one of the larger events that we enter three of our wines into every year. It's a well known competition in it's 25th year and...well, here's what the website says about it:

The 25th West Coast Wine Competition concluded on April 20, 2007 in Santa Rosa, CA, with a field of over 1,700 entries spanning from wineries located in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Baja California, British Columbia, Australia, and New Zealand.

So, anyway, we did very well this year as all three wines that we entered received medals:

• Gold medal - LaVelle 2006 Estate Bottled Riesling
• Silver Medal - LaVelle 2005 Vintage Select Pinot Gris
• Bronze Medal - LaVelle 2005 Vintage Select Pinot Noir